It is 1560, and the newly crowned Elizabeth I is about to become romantically involved with Robert Dudley when an old woman appears bearing a diary written in the hand of the young queen's mother, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth has grown up knowing nothing It is 1560, and the newly crowned Elizabeth I is about to become romantically involved with Robert Dudley when an old woman appears bearing a diary written in the hand of the young queen's mother, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth has grown up knowing nothing of her notorious mother but what official history put forth: that she was an adulterer and traitor and deserved to die. Now, reading her mother's diary, she learns the truth. She learns of the unstable King Henry VIII, the pious Queen Catherine, scheming Cardinal Wolsey, high-minded Thomas More - and much, much more . . . ...Continua Nascondi

It made me cry. The novel gives a totally different portrait of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry's love for her and her own love for their daughter Elizabeth, the Tudor sun.
Her life, herself so hated and called the "Great Whore", all she had to bear is here

It made me cry. The novel gives a totally different portrait of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry's love for her and her own love for their daughter Elizabeth, the Tudor sun.
Her life, herself so hated and called the "Great Whore", all she had to bear is here described with fierce words; with the same kind of strength Queen Elizabeth made her best virtue.
Who loves English kings and queens' history should read it.